A Stellar experience at New Mexico skies
By Murray Carlson
9/29/2004
As an amateur astronomer I have a lot in common with thousands of others in my hobby around the world. The common struggle to achieve the best equipment, training and clear skies combined with the free time to enjoy it all is a major challenge. All of these problems evaporated with a wonderful week spent with Lynn and Mike at New Mexico Skies.

DOB UPGRADE to a DSO "PUSH-TO"
By larry stange
7/21/2004
Unless skilled at Star hopping, finding DSO's can be rather hard with a basic Dob platform. Using a modified mouse on each of the Azimuth & Elevation axis, both can be coordinated together to indicate actual pointing of your Dob in an Astronomy program such as Skyglobe.

Matching a CCD Camera to a Telescope
By Jim Burnell
6/18/2004
This article is the first installation in a series of articles about CCD imaging and setting up a CCD imaging system. During the course of the year I travel and speak on CCD imaging and people frequently ask about how to get started and how to choose the components of an imaging system. In this series of articles I will address the most common questions. This first article talks about pixel size.